Classes & Workshops

As a trained facilitator with a Masters Degree in Instructional Design, my approach to teaching is fun, informative, and hands-on, and focuses on ensuring every participant comes away with relatable ideas and inspiration. I take pride in crafting educational experiences that inform, empower, and energize. Gone are the days of dull lectures and uninspired "because I say so" classes.

Professional, Facilitated Learning

With a goal of accessible learning, each class or workshop emphasizes the importance of deep connection - which is fostered through shared experiences in class. I exclusively offer hands-on classes that encourage active participation, foster discussions, and utilize advanced learning techniques. When we facilitate these classes, we prioritize empathy over mere expertise, and practical tools over theoretical examples, and leverage our decade-long experience living and leading D/s, polyamorous, and queer relationships.

In all our teaching, we adhere to the Kink Education Code of Conduct.

Sample Classes

  • Unlock your path to a loving and fulfilling relationship where power exchange is at the center of your connection. Your deepest fantasy, what you have longed for your whole life, is to give yourself completely to that special Domme/Dom or to use and train your sub/pet exactly to your liking. And you want a relationship, too, one based on mutual love and respect where your dark desires thrive alongside a shared life. In this class, we will unpack the foundations of building a loving and lasting power exchange relationship, from creating protocols and rituals to navigating conflict, and assessing your needs and values.

  • Submissive, slave, seductress, serpent. Disciple, Daddy, doggy, diva, disciplinarian. What do you call yourself? Your partner? The words we choose matter, and the language we find on the tip of our tongues or pressed just behind the ball gag can be the difference between feeling empowered by our kink or living just outside of its full potential. How can we subvert gendered language to make it our own? Discard worn-out phrases or reclaim old standbys? Explore the power of words with intention and honor? In this high-impact workshop, come ready to play in fast-paced exercises as we review language choices and how they make us feel, and come up with a lexicon that works for you in different circumstances. Come away with exactly the right words to take your - and their - breath away.

  • Crazy Badass Talent. That’s what you’ll acquire by the end of this fun (well, depends on your definition of fun!) class on the fundamentals of CBT, or cock and ball torture. We will cover fundamental types of CBT including rope ties, weights, sensation, and impact play (such as ball-busting) on some trembling external genitalia. This class will emphasize the range of play available, how giving and receiving partners can both gauge pain and enjoyment thresholds safely and sexily and how you can incorporate CBT into dynamic scenes.

  • “And now, I want you to suffer.” Those words can set a tremble to our souls, or cause a sigh of relief - at least it will be over soon! Unless… the purpose of the scene and rope is to place the body and spirit in an extended exodus, to test the endurance of our limbs, and alight the place in our hearts designed to find news depths of dominance and submission. Learn a variety of ties in hands-on, connected scenes designed to explore the limits of our capacity for suffering over a longer period.

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“ Athena is a fantastic educator. She always provides such clear insights, and I walk away with such great ideas. This class was useful to my kink journey, but also, to my relationships in general.”
- Workshop Attendee, Tethered Together 2023

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